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JIRA Essentials - Third Edition
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JIRA Essentials - Third Edition

by Patrick Li
April 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
390 pages
8h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding workflows

A workflow is what JIRA uses to model business processes. It is a flow of statuses (steps) that issues go through one by one with paths between them (transitions). All issues in JIRA have a workflow applied based on their issue type and project. Issues move through workflows from one status (for example, OPEN) to another (for example, CLOSED). JIRA lets you visualize and design workflows as a diagram, as shown in the following diagram:

Understanding workflows

The preceding diagram shows a simple workflow in JIRA. The rectangles represent the statuses, and the arrow lines represent transitions that link statuses together. As you can see, this looks ...

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